Wow, this blog is going to cover A LOT of stuff. After all we are going to cover last year as well as this year too ! But if you were like me, it seems harder to remember the good stuff from last year, which there was, from the bad stuff . But we are in a new year with new expectations .

I would like to remember a good friend of GA and to many on a more personal level as well, the passing of Comicfan. His contributions and participation on the site will always be in our memory  

On the good news side of GA, we had some transitions to different people on various different blogs. I'm very proud of the efforts and the continuation of the Review Team, Ask An Author, and Prompt Team. Without these volunteers, the blog would be a less of a destination to visit for different people.

Now what about looking forward? In all honesty, I am pretty excited about what is to come. Myr and Cia have been working in the background with different staff and a whole lot of new volunteers to make visible changes to not only processes, but presentation of different areas of the site. You will see some more changes and don't worry, not one of the proposed changes has seen me saying, 'well, the old way was better'. In fact, it is not a wholesale change like throwing the baby out with the bath water, but more like adding a sibling to make the family better  One new thing you will notice even on this blog, is the story listings. We now have the ability to run the week's story updates for all classes of authors and we'll continue to feature the ones we have all followed, but also giving a bit of PR for the non promoted authors in their quest to be promoted! 

Here is all the participants of our volunteer blogs: @Timothy M.@chris191070@Talo Segura@Aditus@Parker Owens@spike382@Puppilull@astone2292@Valkyrie@Cole Matthews@Myr@Cia @Renee Stevens. I can't forget to thank all the others that are part of our Anthology Proof Team, Author Promotion Team, GA Engagement Team, Site Development Team, and the Story Archivist Team. If I forgot your team or name, let me know, I can always edit  

Last thing we will do, is look how we finished off the month of December on our goals! You know, we finished off the month with amazing numbers. Great job everybody.

So with all that said 😌, let's review what the blog brought us all of the past 7 days!

On Monday, Cia had the must read CSR Discussion Day:

Friday Myr came back to kick off a blog celebrating the incoming New Year on New Year's Eve! Lots of well wishes in there and never too late to add another:

Saturday was a special day, where Myr showed off a couple of new capabilities of the site in Year in Review Blogs.

Myr actually featured a lot of words this week that might be in my day to day vocabulary  If you think they are esplanade, pyrrhic and provender, you are so wrong  

esplanade, nabob, pyrrhic, verbatim, provender, rambunctious, culprit

Contests - 

Newsletter Genre Challenge - Stories Due January 30, 2022

Check out this great challenge here.

Ask an Author 3.0 - Submit a story you like and 3 questions you would like to ask the author about. Send them to @astone2292 or @Renee Stevens **Please submit so Aaron can have a  bank of stories and questions**

Blog Opportunities

Guess the Author: Open to all GA authors. PM @Renee Stevensor @wildone to participate

Story Review: Send it in to @Renee Stevens or @Timothy M. 

And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets!

Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories

1. On Fire by Cia

Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. On The Outside by Comicality
2. The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus
3. CDMX by Carlos Hazday
4. Ridley by Krista
5. The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose by AC Benus
6. Ancalagon by Cia
7. On Fire by Cia

Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

1. The Brilliant Boy Billionaire by Altimexis
2. The World of Psionic Corp by Myr
3. The World of the King's Rangers by Myr

Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories

1. The Cockney Canuck by Dodger
2. A Forgiving Heart by lilansui
3. A Thousand Years of Hope by lilansui

Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. Another Brother by quokka
2. A terrible, nonsensical poetry and others by SilverArdour
3. You Complete Me by Salander
4. Sammy's Kitchen by Arch Hunter
5. Spirit Wolves by kbois
6. Egaran Stars by Yeoldebard
7. Live, Love, Lose by LittleCherryBlossom26
8. Alex & Lang by quokka
9. Crying Wolf by Tsukihana
10. Do You Ship Us? - The Next Stage by Littlelovestories
11. The Witches Of Amethyst Cove by Ajbt2001
12. The Making of a Slave by and9993
13. Sacrum by C. Henderson
14. Running for Home by Lux Apollo
15. The Connecticut River Boys by Tallguyct **Complete**
16. Empty, Open, Dusty, Dead by Mawgrim
17. Timothy by CLJobe
18. Eruption by quokka
19. Neoki (or the Burlington Elf King) by Georgie DHainaut **Complete**
20. Dragon's Roar by Xfighter1984
21. Mentally by Solus Magus
22. Raising Evzen by Yeoldebard
23. At the Stars by Tsukihana
24. A Forgiving Heart by lilansui
25. The Second Circlet: The Old Places by MrM
26. Wild Flower by vanalas
27. A Thousand Years of Hope by lilansui
28. The Cousin's Cousin by Wombat Bill
29. Unspoken by Late to the party
30. Never walk alone- Walk on by Andre Delport
31. A Slice of Life by Xfighter1984
32. A Ticklish Thriller by Ajbt2001
33. Never walk alone by Andre Delport **Complete**
34. Young and Hungry - For Life by Wombat Bill **Complete**

Recently Updated 'Poet' Stories

1. Musings of a Wordsmith by JACC

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